Below this active MTA train station sits an abandoned generator building that has sat unoccupied for years except by some stray cats that sleep throughout the front yard of this building. 

The thin layer of paint peels off gradually overtime showing the building’s oldness. 

This picture shows a way to measure the number of amperes flowing through all of the wires. (An ampere is a unit to measure the rate of electron flow or current in an electrical conductor) 

A dial that shows how many kilowatts-hour the generators are producing. (A kilowatt-hour is 1,000 watts used for one hour. As an example, a 100-watt light bulb operating for ten hours would use one kilowatt-hour.)

Access points for cables that enter a mini generator to move into the big ones. The ladder in the background was put there by other explorers exploring the building to gain access to the roof of the substation.

One of the giant generators powering this substation. You can see that they are truly very big and that they can generate a lot of power over time.

These boxes are used for holding all of the wires that are needed to make the electricity from the generators.

A chain that used to be pulled to raise and lower a crane that sits along the top and can move along rails on the building.

Buttons that used to be pressed every day just sit there building up dust in an empty room to never be used again. 

An old work bench of whoever used to work in this substation. Completely trashed by the explorers passing through here rummaging around the old workspace. 

The stray cats that have taken over the front yard of this abandoned building. They are fed by an old lady that resides across the street building them little homes and leaving out bowls of food and water.